Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.

We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.

Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor nor labor without capital.

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

It's always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

The more we get out of the world the less we leave, and in the long run we shall have to pay our debts at a time that may be very inconvenient for our own survival.

I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

As an American, I'd like to apologize - for everything.

I was a rebellious kid, always getting into trouble.

I was so spoiled in a way. I worked very hard, but there was just a wealth of great roles.